{"id":7256,"date":"2017-12-23T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2017-12-23T12:34:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T20:34:05","slug":"fought-community-black-panther-will-gentrification-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/12\/23\/fought-community-black-panther-will-gentrification-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Aunti Frances: She fought for her community as a Black Panther. Will gentrification force her out?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In America\u2019s \u2018hottest housing market\u2019, one woman\u2019s fight to keep her home has become a rallying cry against the displacement of communities of color<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Frances Moore, an activist known locally as Aunti Frances, in front of her home in Oakland, California. Photograph: Sam Levin for the Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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O<\/span><\/span>ne by one, Frances Moore has watched friends and neighbors move into cars, tents and encampments. Many in crisis often turn to the 62-year-old Oakland woman, who provides free meals to the homeless, but she has found it increasingly difficult to hear their stories of displacement.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because she knows she could soon be next.<\/p>\n

Moore, known locally as Aunti Frances, is now fighting an eviction from the community where she was born and raised, in the heart of a neighborhood recently\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0the hottest real estate market in the US. In north Oakland, a region strained by the wealth of Silicon Valley and a major affordable housing shortage, the former Black Panther\u2019s struggle has become a\u00a0rallying cry<\/a>\u00a0in the battle against gentrification.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to think about my program, the community I\u2019ve given so much to, my blood, sweat and tears. It\u2019s about more than just me,\u201d Moore said on a recent afternoon, seated on the stoop outside her second-storey apartment. She sighed and buried her face in her hands: \u201cI\u2019m just panicked.\u201d<\/p>\n